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Disabling Safe Mode (Again)

It’s no longer possible to disable safe mode after Firefox 39 because of the removal of the distribution directory.

So lots of people are having trouble disabling safe mode using my earlier instructions and I discovered it is because of problems overlaying the dialog. So here are some new instructions that should work for everyone.

First, create a disablesafemode directory in distribution/bundles where the Firefox executable is located (you’ll probable have to create the distribution and bundles directories as well). Then create a file called chrome.manifest that looks like this:

trying this out on firefox 30 on Solaris (I know). Anyways, it seems to close the window, but leaves firefox running in a windowloess state. Thus a user attempt to restart firefox manually results in “firefox already running” message. please help.

AWESOME. and there is totally a use case for it… like public libraries and church!

please keep up the good work.
got it running with the current firefox ESR (still in 38.4) but the script won’t quite run. running lubuntu 14.0.4 and installed the ESR in /opt then put the chrome.manifest in the root of the binary directory, and created the subfolders as specified. as another person said it stops safe mode, which is sufficient, but if someone is trying to be crafty and appends the shortcut with -safe-mode (as opposed to command line where you can ctrl c out) it’ll keep spinning and requires a reboot before the browser will work since it’s already running.

never even see a dialogue so it’s right there at the beginning

very awesome job and thank you again, just a minor complaint if youve got some wizardry up your sleeve. fingers crossed for the next ESR at least

Is this meant to work for Firefox 43.0.4? I followed the above steps, without success. Is the Firefox executable (I assume this to be the application icon) supposed to be located inside the new directory “distribution”, or just in the same main directory?